The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-03-04


quality Of the scuppernong grape,
consists in its hardy, lurnriant ma
ture, and immunity from the disea.
SEES, which have proved so fatal TO
the Catawba vineyards OF the Ohio
valley and render proftless many
an acre of the vine-clad hills of
sunny France On the Coast,
where the fercest nortber, having
become entangled among the
plumeS Of pines that guard it on
the north, is robbed by them of its
chilling sting, and yet more com
plete'y deprived of all frigidity by
the tropic airs that wait from that
natural heater, the warm watered
Gnlt-in this favored region. we
say; the orange, the lemon aud the
citron, steal from the sunlight its
gold, while the shaddock, the
jujube, the almond, the olive, and
the broad and SIlken. .leaved banan-
mas, make up the tale of tropic
fruits that flourish in this Eden.
land OF Mississippi"
STOCK RAISING.
When NJ. dIbervile, nearly two
centuries ago, reported to the
French government of the existence
here of such magnificent yeldue,
vast meadows covered with succn.
lent grass the year round, he
received instructions, "bIeed the
Buffalo at Biloxi" Now, since the
lapse of nearly two centuries, with
the advent of civilization, we say
breed the cattle, the sheep, the
horse, etc, and reap your rich re-
ward. On the rich prairies further
north the grass grows as high, is as
rich aud nOurishing, aud it is vel
coined by the poor brutes just
emerged from the winter stall where
they fCd through the freezing
weather on dry hay. The owner,
Oh the other hand, while his stock
brOwze and grow fat must make
hay while the sun shines else ttey
die. Here it is not SO. We have
some magnificent stock farms that
ARE stocked with grade Jerseys and |
sheep, yielding immense quantities
of milk, butter, beef, mutton and
wool, aud with the exception of
little feeding for about thlee |
months in the year to milk cows,
there is no feeding done or necessa-
~, no housing or sheltering and,
comparatively, no expense or trou'
Die. The wool, called make WOOL"
;lean and free from bnrs sells read.
Y for the b"st market price. The
'ield is from three to five pounds
Der head. In a word, there are
in it, with the least Labor
After the land has
'ielded a crop or so it is no trouble
hen, on the same land, to raise and
preserve as mnch hay, from our
atlve grasses as will be needed for
se the entire winter. Even on
he sand islands, a few miles from
hOre, cattle run wild, without at
phtiOn, seldom seeing a human
eing, and there grow, fatten and
icrease year after year. TurnipS,1
ats, rice, Indian corn, etc, are fine
,od for stock, such as milcll COWS,
nd all these are highly prolific and
ield abundantly with little work in :
m Coast soil.
OUR YELLOW PINE PRODUCTS.
The mere mention of our exten. d
We forest of long leaf yellow pune Fl
of itself suggestive of lumber d
anutacturing, etc, on an extensive s
ale. For 1856 the exports of =
mbcr from the port of Pasca gOula \
mounted to 5O,OO0,OO0 feet, an h
crease of 1O,OOO,OOO over 1885, p
ld with an increase Of facilities "
is year, 1887, We have fair prom
e of AN additional increase Of a
,out 25,000,000 feet. Our ship G
lrsls are increasing in number aud Il
ciliiies at equally rapid strides. @
These are things for the consider al
lou of the capitalist, but their are c,
her uses for the yellow pine of al
terest to the settler and small n,
pItalists. In the first place, land II
vered with pine timber suitable cl
r lumber can be bought for from j
20 to $500 per acre. The aver. oI
e cut of saw logs is from FIVE to ri
a thousand feet per acre, worth at nj
e mills from $3.50 to $500 per al
Ousand. After the saw logs are le
{ of, or in case the pine is too al
,all fot saw Ions. furneufine and m